To: All College Faculty
On September 23, Arbitrator William Kaplan awarded all OPSEU/SEFPO College Faculty members a new collective agreement that will govern our working conditions until September 30, 2024.
This award (linked here) includes significant gains in areas including equity,
Dear CAAT-A Members,
As the semester winds to a close, we wanted to reach out to keep you posted on the latest developments related to the conclusion of a new Collective Agreement.
Mediation/Arbitration Scheduling
In March, both sides
Hello Faculty,
Arbitrator William Kaplan has imposed a media blackout on the upcoming voluntary mediation-interest arbitration between the Colleges’ and College Faculty bargaining teams. There will be no further communication from the team until Arbitrator Kaplan lifts the blackout. We
Greetings Faculty:
A huge thank you to each of you for standing strong during a long and difficult round of bargaining. As you know by now, facing pressure from student organizations and the resolve of faculty, on Thursday evening–just one hour before the strike
Dear Faculty,
Today, three months after commencing work-to-rule action, we are setting a strike deadline in an effort to compel the College Employer Council (CEC) and the College Presidents to do either of the two things they have refused to do since bargaining began:
Dear College Presidents:College faculty have agreed to go to voluntary binding interest arbitration to save the school year, and are asking you to do the same.On February 17, 2022 faculty across the province rejected your final offer, after spending months attempting to find a middle path between
Greetings faculty:
The Colleges’ team, via the CEC, continues to assert that they will not return to the bargaining table, nor agree to refer outstanding issues to interest arbitration, despite faculty having clearly rejected their final offer. Typically in bargaining,
Dear Faculty:
It has been an eventful and exciting week in bargaining so far, and we wanted to share the following update with you regarding faculty workload proposals and Bill 124. Please pass it along to your faculty colleagues, but we ask that you
Greetings all:Many thanks to the 700+ faculty who turned out to the Provincewide Bargaining Update webinar on February 2nd, and to the additional hundreds of faculty who’ve been attending local bargaining Q&As. There has been incredible engagement at these events, along with fantastic questions and feedback from those who
The College Employer Council’s forced offer fails. It’s a terrible contract that fails faculty, fails students and threatens to harm the entire college system. All faculty should vote to reject the colleges’ offer, because:
X It fails to